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Jigsaw's games are over, at least for now.

Per Bloody Disgusting, it's been reported that the upcoming sequel Saw XI has been canceled. The sequel was previously announced for a theatrical release on Sept. 27, 2024, before it was then delayed to Sept. 26, 2025. While the movie's fate hasn't been officially confirmed, the new report quotes an unnamed source close to the production as saying, "It's totally dead. It's 100% over. Almost a year now."

The new report also noted that the source stated, "Everything went sideways in January 2024... the producers started fighting." One of the producers reportedly attempted to "plow forward" with production despite the friction, while the other "put up roadblocks," ultimately stalling the movie from getting started. As for why Lionsgate executives didn't get involved in an attempt to get Saw XI back on track, the source added, “[Lionsgate] didn’t have anyone to smooth over the disagreement.”

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Nazneen Contractor’s General Hospital character, Ada Turner, battled it out with Ric in the courtroom near the end of last year. She prosecuted Ava for causing Kristina to have a miscarriage. Ric held his own, ultimately winning the case. Contractor recently discussed her daytime soap experience.

Her Husband is a Villain

A veteran of intense shows like The Border and 24, Contractor added Port Charles’ latest assistant district attorney to her long list of credits in 2024. The Spiral actress is married to Carlo Rota, who currently plays Gh villain Jenz Sidwell. While he was recently seen in an episode of The Rookie, Contractor also has a lot of irons in the fire. She’s part of The Love Club Moms series of movies and is the central focus of The Love Club Moms: Nila for the Up Faith & Family streaming service.

Contractor talked to Digital Journal about her career...

The official website for the upcoming TV anime Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers announced today that singer Nowlu sings the ending theme song "Arika" ("Whereabout"). Nowlu is a finalist in The Oversea Treasure 2021 audition held by Namco Bandai Arts in 2021. She made her major debut from Lantis with "Rasen" ("Spiral") in June 2022, which was featured as the ending theme of the second cour of the TV anime Requiem of the Rose King . She also provided the ending themes for The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague in 2023 and More Than a Married Couple, But Not Lovers in 2024. Message from Nowlu: I am Nowlu and I am in charge of the ending theme song. A game that has been loved by many people for many years is now going out of its world and being made into an anime. I am very happy to have been given this wonderful opportunity.

Darkside, the trio of Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington, and Tlacael Esparza, have returned with the announcement of a new album, Nothing, and the release of its latest single, “S.N.C.”

Due on February 28th via Matador Records, Nothing will be the band’s first full-length effort since 2021’s Spiral, and also marks their first release since becoming a trio, thanks to the addition of drummer Esparza.

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Unlike previous albums — which were written based on pre-developed ideas and song fragments — Nothing sees the band on a new creative plane, forging the music out of loose jam sessions.

The previously-released track, “Graucha Max,” and the new single, “S.N.C,” reflect that, pairing the band’s signature knack for audio design with kaleidoscopic arrangements, as colors and textures bounce in and out of orbit over a driving beat. “S.N.C” hits an especially groovy peak around midway through its six-minute runtime, as clavs,...

Adam Sandler’s hit sports comedy The Longest Yard is heading to Paramount+, bringing the laughs and football action to your home.

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, Paramount+ subscribers can revisit this 2005 remake of the classic 1974 film. Directed by Peter Segal, who also directed Sandler in 50 First Dates, the film stars Sandler as Paul Crewe, a disgraced former NFL quarterback who is sent to prison and coerced into organizing a football game between the inmates and the guards. Co-starring Spiral's Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, star of the original film, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Terry Crews, The Longest Yard blends humor, heart, and hard-hitting action, making it a fan-favorite in the sports comedy genre.

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The controversial comedy also holds the lowest score of any film from Al Pacino's career.

Adam Sandler: Decades of Comedy

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Paris Has Fallen boasts an impressive cast of international stars, bringing humanity to the action-packed show. The series is the latest entry in the "Has Fallen" franchise. The show builds on the tone established by the Gerald Butler-led Olympus Has Fallen. Paris Has Fallen focuses on a series of attacks carried out in the French capital by an embittered former member of the French Foreign Legion named Jacob Pearce. Struggling to prevent further bloodshed are Vincent Taleb and Zara Taylor, a bodyguard and an Mi:6 agent both operating within the city.

Paris Has Fallen has plenty of intense action, but the real draw of the series is the compelling conspiracy that Pearce seeks to expose and how it impacts the people connected to it. The stars of the show hail from across Europe, bringing a natural diversity to a story that highlights the crimes and mistakes of the recent past.

Last year, we heard that Spyder Dobrofsky – who worked on the scripts for such flicks as The Housewives of the North Pole and One Christmas Wish, as well as Mom’s Day Away, and made his feature directorial debut with the mystery thriller Spiral – was making a holiday horror movie called Down Below. That movie made its way out into the world back in October (you can check it out on Amazon), and now it has been announced that Dobrofsky is following it up with a creature feature called The Weeping! Lindsey Shaw (Ned’s Declassified), Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), Reggie Lee (Tropic Thunder), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider-Man), Shoshana Bush (On My Block), and Hutch Dano (Zombeavers) have signed on to star in the film, which heads into production next month.

Dobrofsky will be directing The Weeping from a screenplay he wrote. The synopsis: When a group of friends go camping...

A couple of months ago, we learned that Djimon Hounsou (A Quiet Place Part II and A Quiet Place: Day One) is set to star in The Monster, a horror thriller that Darren Lynn Bousman will be directing from a screenplay by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer, the writers of Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane. It was announced soon after that Lauren Lavera – who played heroine Sienna in Terrifier 2 and the recently released Terrifier 3 – was joining Hounsou in the cast. Now, Deadline reveals that Alicia Witt (Longlegs), Gina Philips (Jeepers Creepers), Neal McDonough (Band of Brothers), Mia Healey (The Wilds), Michael Lombardi (The Deuce), David Call (Insidious: The Red Door), Victor Del Rio (Precognito), Cedric Benjamin (Luke Cage), Zac Jaffee (Hustlers), Renés Rivera (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Hari Bhaskar (First Shift), Kristina Krasniqi (Celebrity Ghost Stories), and rapper Jacob Lukas Anderson, a.k.a. Prof, are also in the cast.

Up next from director Darren Lynn Bousman is horror movie The Monster, and Deadline brings us a casting update on the project this week.

For starters, Paramount’s Republic Pictures label has boarded worldwide rights on the film. Additionally, Gina Philips (Jeepers Creepers) has signed on to co-star in The Monster.

As Deadline notes in their report, this will mark Gina Philips’ first on-screen role in eight years. In addition to playing Trish alongside Justin Long in Jeepers Creepers, Philips’ horror credits also include Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995), and Dead & Breakfast (2004).

“I’m a horror movie fanatic,” Gina Philips is credited as once saying in her IMDb bio.

Philips will star alongside Lauren Lavera in The Monster. The film’s cast also includes Djimon Hounsou (A Quiet Place), Mia Healey (The Wilds), Jacob Lukas Anderson, Alicia Witt (Longlegs) and Neal McDonough (Band Of Brothers).

Deadline details this week,...

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I’m a sucker for a great murder mystery, and sometimes Europe just does it better. Sure, there are subtitles, but if “Squid Game” taught us anything, it’s that a great story matters far more than what language the characters are speaking. So, if you’re a fan of international movies and TV and haven’t heard of MHz Choice, consider this a sign to check it out. As one of the premiere streamers for exclusive international mysteries, dramas, and comedies, MHz Choice gives you over 2,500 hours of content – all unedited with easy-to-read English subtitles. From quirky French mysteries like “Alexandra Ehle” to darker tales from Finland like “Arctic Circle,” there’s a gripping story waiting to be discovered. Here’s everything you need to know about MHz Choice.

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Barbarian actor Justin Long and Kate Bosworth are set to battle a pack of ravenous coyotes during a firestorm in survival thriller Coyote, announced today by Capstone Studios’ CEO Christian Mercuri.

Colin Minihan will direct from a story by Daniel Meersand & Nick Simon and Tad Daggerhart, with the script by Daggerhart and Simon.

Coyote follows” a family fighting for their lives against a pack of crazed coyotes during a raging wildfire in the Hollywood Hills.”

Production began November 11 in Bogota, Colombia.

Nathan Klingher (Land of Bad) and Ford Corbett will produce for Gramercy Park, along with James Harris (Fall) of Teashop Productions and Jib Polhemus (Old Guy) of Source Management. Capstone’s Roman Viaris and Ruzanna Kegeyan are executive producers alongside Jason Carpenter, Adam Mirels, Robbie Mirels, Tyler Gould, Michael Sklut, Nick Simon, Tad Daggerhart, Jijo Reed, Justin Long and Kate Bosworth.

“We are thrilled to be collaborating with Gramercy...

The world of Stephen King adaptations runs the gamut across nearly every aspect of filmmaking. You have theatrically released ones and straight to video ones. Stories stretched into TV miniseries and short stories used as segments of anthology movies. Of course, there are features that do well with critics but fail with audiences and vice versa, fail with critics but are eaten up but movie goers worldwide. 1408 came at the beginning of the King renaissance in 2007 and was a success with both critics and audiences but somehow stands alone in the mid 2000s horror pantheon as a successful but forgotten movie. Who was originally going to star in the title role? How many endings does the movie technically have? How meticulous was the production about the number 1408? Grab your room keys as we find out what happened to 1408.

Stephen King had released books in several different ways throughout his career...

For many fans, Season 2 of 8bit's popular sports anime, Blue Lock, has failed to live up to the high standard of animation quality seen in Season 1. In response to mounting social media backlash against the series, a former Blue Lock animator directly blames Kodansha's production committee for not giving the staff enough time to put out a high-quality product.

Blue Lock's second season, which premiered on Oct. 5, is currently a popular target on social media for repeated animation errors, inconsistencies and shortcuts. The release of Episode 6's preview was quickly met with derision from X (formerly Twitter) users, who highlighted instances of sluggish body animation and static soccer ball shots sliding across the screen to simulate movement. Evakoi (@Evakoiani), who previously worked as an animator on Blue Lock Season 1, urged members of the anime community to not mock or harass the anime's staff. "Blue Lock situation is not funny anymore,...

Over 10 films to date and an 11th scheduled for late September of 2025, Saw is a franchise that rivals most in terms of both output and fandom. It had a run of 7 straight films over 7 years which began with the out of nowhere Saw in 2004 and culminating with Saw 3D in 2010. Its consistency may have trailed off temporarily with scattered entries following in 2017, 2021, and 2023, but the series as a whole is well known and has branched off into nearly every conceivable type of media. From comics and novels to video games and toys, Saw may just be primed to start another legendary run in the 2020s. Saw III was a runaway train that is still the highest grossing film in the series, but it was almost not even made after the original creators were done. With traps that were some of the most creative and even including Tobin Bell’s favorite...

Part of the joy of watching John Kramer's (Tobin Bell) intricate traps in Saw isn't the blood and gore but how everything comes together in the end. While the long-running horror series has a reputation for its torture, the opposite is actually the case. The violence in the films is undeniable, but there is a meaningful message at the heart of Saw. "Cherish your life" becomes a mantra of Jigsaw's, and he puts people through these traps because they need to learn some lesson. Those who survive often become better for it.

Saw has been a source of inspiration over the years, but no franchise can hold a candle to the original. This is because, in addition to delivering high-concept material, it is also known for some monumental twists viewers would never see coming.

Spiral's Final Twist Is Reminiscent of the Original Franchise

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Chris Rock is stepping back into the directorial chair for the first time in a decade with Misty Green, a new Hollywood drama. This marks his fourth time behind the camera, following Head of State (2003), I Think I Love My Wife (2007), and Top Five (2014), with the latter scoring the best reviews of the three with an 85% "Certified Fresh" approval from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The decade since Top Five has seen Rock focused on on-screen acting, including his leading turn in Fargo season 4 and the polarizing Spiral: From the Book of Saw, which he also executive produced.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rock is set to direct and star in Misty Green, which will debut next week at the American Film Market. The film is based on Rock's original script, and it will follow the journey of a promising actress whose career has stopped due to her personal struggles. This...

Chris Rock is looking to tackle Hollywood with his new feature Misty Green.

Rock is attached to direct and star in the film for the package that will debut next week at the American Film Market. Neon International is handling foreign rights, with CAA Media Finance responsible for domestic rights.

Misty Green is based on an original script from Rock and centers on a talented actress whose career has been stifled by her vices. Things change when a director (Rock) offers her a tailor-made part that could finally revitalize her path, although the situation is complicated by their turbulent past.

Casting is underway for the film that counts Rock and Peter Rice as producers, alongside James Lopez for Macro Film Studios and Tommy Oliver for Confluential Films. Serving as executive producers are Charles D. King for Macro Film Studios and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films.

Rock has directed such...

The Official Saw Escape Revamps for Halloween 2024 with New Twists, Exciting Surprises, and an Exclusive Encounter for Saw Superfans: "Egan Escape Productions is excited to announce thrilling new upgrades to The Official Saw Escape just in time for Halloween 2024, including fresh games and immersive new content. Jason Egan recently invited a group of devoted Saw fans to experience the latest enhancements, but he had a shocking twist in store for them. While exploring the infamous Saw bathroom, the fans were stunned when Shawnee Smith, the actress who plays “Amanda Young” in the Saw films, dramatically unmasked herself from behind the iconic Pig Mask, giving superfans the surprise of a lifetime.

This exciting new content within the escape, which features Shawnee Smith as “Amanda”, is part of a broader revamp that includes heightened gameplay, new puzzles, additional interactors to increase the immersion, and atmospheric outdoor effects that create a thrilling ambiance...

A couple of days ago, we learned that Djimon Hounsou (A Quiet Place Part II and A Quiet Place: Day One) is set to star in The Monster, a horror thriller that Darren Lynn Bousman will be directing from a screenplay by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer, the writers of Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane. Now, our friends at Bloody Disgusting have revealed that Lauren Lavera – who played heroine Sienna in Terrifier 2 and the recently released Terrifier 3 – is in talks to join Hounsou in the cast.

Details on the characters Hounsou and Lavera will be playing haven’t been revealed, but we do know that the story follows two millennials who make quick money by leasing incredible New York City apartments they don’t own to people who don’t know they are being scammed. The con works brilliantly until they run into an apartment owner with a dark...

Back in July, Djimon Hounsou signed on to star in a shark thriller called Beneath the Storm alongside Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Whitney Peak (Hocus Pocus 2), with Tommy Wirkola (Violent Night) writing and directing for Sony Pictures and producers Adam McKay and Kevin Messick of HyperObject Industries. While we wait to hear more information about that project, Hounsou is already moving on to another interesting film, one called The Monster. Deadline reports that Darren Lynn Bousman will be directing the film from a screenplay by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer, the writers of Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane.

The Monster is set to begin filming in Danbury, Connecticut in November. The story follows two millennials who make quick money by leasing incredible New York City apartments they don’t own to people who don’t know they are being scammed. The con works brilliantly until they run into an apartment...

Djimon Hounsou, who is known for starring in the horror movies A Quiet Place Part II and A Quiet Place: Day One, has just been cast in an upcoming horror-thriller titled The Monster. Below, we shared all that we know about his casting and the film.

The Monster will be directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. You might recognize Bousman as the director behind four of the Saw movies: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV and Spiral. He will be helming The Monster from a script co-written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer (Unsane).

Additionally, Lee Nelson and David Tish of Envision Media Arts and Saw producer Mark Burg are producing the film, which is set to start filming in November in Danbury, Connecticut.

Here's what movie producer Burg had to say about working on this upcoming horror flick via Deadline:

Darren sent me a script with incredible twists and turns...

Tobin Bell owns a metal briefcase that he uses to house nine composition books, each one containing the notes he took to prepare to play John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw, in the movies that make up the Saw franchise.. Soon, he’ll start taking notes in a tenth book, because Saw XI is on track for a September 26, 2025 release – and he has confirmed to the LA Times that Kramer is “a main part” of the latest sequel.

The LA Times reports that the first page of the notes Bell took for the original Saw “includes a drawn spiral interrogating the likes, dislikes and motivations” of his character. The other pages “are occupied by a series of questions about the character. They start with the most basic details — ‘Where am I?’ for example — and evolve into increasingly specific queries until they form an inverse triangle brimming with insight he’s deciphered on his own.

While the franchise started out as a low-budget horror movie, it takes a lot to have the Saw movies explained from the increasingly complicated timeline. Despite the franchise's popularity, it hit a point where some critics complained that the further along the series progressed, the harder it was to keep up without having seen every entry in it, preferably recently. Whether that was a big issue is debatable, Saw definitely tried its best to tie everything together for most of its run in a way that other horror series didn't always try.

For the first eight movies, the series all followed one relatively consistent Saw plot point centered around John "Jigsaw" Kramer. However, the spinoff ninth installment Spiral took place years later with a copycat killer of sorts. 2023's Saw X pulls off the shocking move of bringing Jigsaw back into the fold despite the fact that he died way...

Saw XI will feature the return of Tobin Bell's Jigsaw. The character, whose real name is John Kramer, is a cancer patient and engineer who places his victims in deadly traps to teach the survivors moral lessons about how to embrace life. Although he died during the events of Saw III, the complicated interlocking timeline of the franchise has allowed him to appear in nearly every installment of the 10-part franchise, which will soon include the upcoming Saw XI after the success of 2023's Saw X, a prequel centering Bell's character between the events of the first two movies.

While speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Tobin Bell confirmed that Jigsaw will once more be playing a major role in Saw XI. He expressed enthusiasm for the fan response to Saw X and explained that "it's all in the writing," saying that he hoped the quality of the...

Last year, we heard that Spyder Dobrofsky – who worked on the scripts for such flicks as The Housewives of the North Pole and One Christmas Wish, as well as Mom’s Day Away, and made his feature directorial debut with the mystery thriller Spiral – was making a holiday horror movie called Down Below and had assembled a solid cast for the project: the legendary Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) stars alongside Bai Ling (The Crow), Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), and Doug Jones, who is best known for his creature (or heavily made up) performances in films like The Shape of Water, Hellboy, and Hocus Pocus. Now, Down Below has been sent out into the world, as it was given a digital release this week and is available to rent or purchase on Amazon’s Prime Video at This Link.

Down Below tells the following story: On the 20th anniversary of the...

The majority of Junji Itō adaptations are underseen or simply unknown. The sheer amount may also come as a surprise. The peak of movies based on the horror mangaka’s works was during the “J-Horror” wave; The Ring (1998) signaled a sea change in Japanese horror, and studios were looking everywhere for inspiration. Unfortunately, Itō is not the easiest of source materials. His stories and illustrations are surreal and visceral, and translating all of that into moving images is, to say the least, challenging.

Two years after living-dead girl Tomie made the leap to the big screen in 1998, Uzumaki was brought to life. The movie, which was put on a double-bill with Tomie: Replay, served as Akihiro “Higuchinsky” Higuchi’s feature debut. And so far in the cinematic collective derived from Itō’s oeuvre, Uzumaki is one of the most competent. Other adaptations have been partly inspired by their basis; they...

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles announced their NewNarratives award winners for 2024. The program was started in 2021 with the goal of sporting independent filmmakers throughout a wide range of projects at any stage of production including short, feature, episodic series, documentaries, experimental works, and animation works.

The Rhulen Family Foundation provided a $20,000 cash grant in honor of the independent film producer Anthony Rhulen who worked on films like “The Butterfly Effect” among others. From this, each of the selected group of creators received a $5,000 grant.

The initiative received a diverse range of applications upwards of 250 from over 30 countries, including Australia, Bolivia, China, Cuba, India, Italy, South Africa, Venezuela and more. “It was incredible to witness such a strong commitment to the vision we and our previous recipients have crafted for this program. The overwhelming number of outstanding projects is a testament to the insightful and impactful portraits of the human experience that the...

Saw is returning to cinemas to celebrate its 20th anniversary in October, in a 4K restoration. More here.

When Leigh Whannell and James Wan made a short film about a woman who wakes up tied to a chair with a reverse bear trap on her head in 2003, all to help them pitch their feature film script to studios, they couldn’t possibly have imagined it would lead to one of the most popular and successful horror franchises of the 21st century.

Though it later became a byword for meaningless violence and gore with the increasingly grisly trap sequences – for this writer, Saw 3 is the most graphic film is the series, The Rack is particularly vile – by comparison, the original Saw is remarkable for how restrained it is in its violence. Most of the film consists of a two hander in what must by now be the most famous bathroom in horror history.

Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man) finds herself embarking on a scary new beauty treatment in Shell, the upcoming body horror dark comedy from director Max Minghella.

We can exclusively unveil the new poster that teases some of the madness ahead of the film’s world premiere at TIFF. If the poster below is any indication, someone or something is harboring a monstrous beauty secret.

Kate Hudson and Kaia Gerber star alongside Moss in Minghella’s sophomore effort.

In the film, “Down on her luck actress Samantha Lake (Moss) is invited into the ultra glamorous world of Zoe Shannon (Hudson), CEO of health & wellness company Shell. When their patients start to go missing, including starlet Chloe Benson (Gerber), Samantha realizes Shell may be protecting a monstrous secret.”

The body horror dark comedy was penned by Jack Stanley, the scribe behind last year’s riveting thriller The Passenger.

Minghella made his feature...

In Geoffrey Sax's 2005 thriller "White Noise," Michael Keaton plays an architect named Jonathan Rivers (not to be confused with rocker Johnny Rivers) who is living in connubial bliss with his second wife Anna (Chandra West). One night, Anna doesn't come home. She remains missing for five months. Jonathan is devastated, but holds out hope that she may still be alive. One day, he is contacted by a man named Raymond (Ian McNeice) who claims to have a clue as to Anna's whereabouts. Raymond has been watching static-tuned TVs and listening to garbled radio signals, and claims he can hear voices emerging through the hissing. Raymond is convinced that the voices are the voices of ghosts, able to communicate with the land of the living through electrical signals. 

Jonathan doesn't believe Raymond at first, but soon falls under the spell of white noise monitoring. He finds that his monitoring is...

September is going to be a big month for fans of one of the most iconic horror franchises of all-time. Peacock has officially announced that each of the first six Saw movies will begin streaming on the platform starting September 1. The Saw franchise has seen many legendary actors come and go since the first movie premiered 20 years ago in 2004, such as Cary Elwes, Donnie Wahlberg, and Scott Patterson, but one constant has remained the same, which is Tobin Bell voicing the legendary Jigsaw. Bell has voiced the character in every entry in the franchise except the ninth, Spiral, where the character is entirely absent. Saw 7-10 will not begin streaming on Peacock at the same time as the first six films, and there is no update on if they will join their counterparts.

Stand-up comedians don’t typically get cast in iconic horror franchises, hence why Rodney Dangerfield never faced off against Freddy Krueger, and Joan Rivers never ridiculed Michael Myers’ uninspired coverall ensemble.

But in 2019, the world was blindsided by the news that Chris Rock would be executive producing and starring in a new Saw movie, presumably in which a Jigsaw-like psycho tortures people using only a DVD copy of Grown Ups 2.

In 2021, we got Spiral: From the Book of Saw, which indeed found Rock playing a Chris Rock-like detective named Zeke Banks, who’s hot on the trail of a brutal serial killer.

While society has seemingly memory-holed Spiral, a lot of people brought it up in response to a recent social media post asking for examples of modern movies in which stand-up comedians perform their acts in character, à la Rodney Dangerfield. A lot of people pointed to Spiral...

Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II-iv, Spiral) has joined forces with one of Kansas City’s most bone-chilling haunted houses, Exiled: Trail of Terror, to bring a new level of fear to the city this Halloween, Bd has learned. Together, they are crafting a one-of-a-kind fusion of terror and immersive storytelling, giving people a living, breathing emotional experience.

The terror begins on Friday, September 13.

Read on for everything you need to know and watch the trailer below…

Bousman beckons you to step into a realm of fear this fall at Exiled: Crooked Rose Woods, an outdoor haunted house nestled in the sinister shadows of Bonner Springs, Kansas, just 25 minutes west of downtown Kansas City. “Those looking for traditional scares, be warned, this insidious event breathes, reacts, and transforms with your every interaction,” taunts Bousman.

“I was raised in Kansas City, and every Halloween, my father and I would venture into the West Bottoms.

The groundbreaking survival horror video game franchise Silent Hill is poised for a full revival over the next several months. Konami is publishing a remake of the universally acclaimed Silent Hill 2 in October 2024 while a new installment, titled Silent Hill: Townfall, is currently in development by No Code and Annapurna Interactive. However, while it’s great to see Silent Hill emerge from a lengthy period of inactivity and bizarrely executed spinoffs, the franchise is still haunted by the ghost of the long-canceled title Silent Hills.

Perhaps the greatest video game never made, Silent Hills was intended to be a return to form for the Silent Hill franchise helmed by longtime Konami game director Hideo Kojima and fan-favorite filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Unceremoniously canceled in the wake of Kojima and Konami’s abrupt rupture in their professional relationship and Konami’s changing video game strategy, all that publicly remains of Silent Hills is P.

Mastodon have announced a 15th anniversary expanded reissue of their seminal album, Crack the Skye, out October 4th.

The reissue includes a remastered version of the original tracklist, as well as an instrumental mix of the entire album.

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In addition to standard 2-lp vinyl and 2-cd packages, the band is offering up vinyl and CD box sets that include a Blu-Ray with over two-and-a-half hours of video content including: Crack the Skye: The Movie; The Making of Crack the Skye; and 15th anniversary animations.

The box set also houses extras such as a new 24-inch poster, a sheet with four individual custom designed magnets, and a 12-page booklet. All editions feature re-imagined artwork from Mastodon’s longtime collaborator Paul Romano. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Crack the Skye proved to be a turning point for the band, which infused their southern sludge metal sound with prog on the 2009 effort.

The Spiral Abyss may get a great new feature for players with the arrival of Genshin Impact 5.0. The QoL update mentioned in the Version 5.0 leaks seems to be inspired by Honkai: Star Rail's approach to an endgame activity. The leaks about Version 5.0 changes in the Spiral Abyss suggest that players will see an improvement in their experience.

As seen in new Genshin Impact 5.0 leaks, the Spiral Abyss will have a game-changing quality-of-life (QoL) update. The Spiral Abyss is one of the main endgame activities for players to challenge themselves in HoYoverses action RPG, now joined by the Imaginarium Theater since Version 4.7. The activity constantly rotates its modifiers and opponents, offering fresh new challenges every period, as well as rewards for players to seize should they complete them. Starting with Version 5.0, after unlocking the Spiral Abyss in Genshin Impact, players may have an easier time claiming some rewards they are entitled to.

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Prepare yourself for darkness, despair, and Doc’s, because Nine Inch Nails have teamed up with Dr. Martens for a new footwear collection honoring the 30th anniversary of The Downward Spiral.

A tribute to light in the darkness, the shoe brand explained that this collab is “a physical response to Nine Inch Nails’ visceral, ground-breaking album,” in a press release, featuring some of Doc’s hardest-hitting silhouettes and...

Catch the latest episode of “Es.TV” airing at 5:30 Am on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, on Talk. This episode promises an exciting lineup featuring a variety of celebrity guests and entertainment highlights.

Viewers can look forward to interviews with Hollywood stars such as Scarlett Johansson, discussing her latest project “Fly Me to the Moon,” and Rebecca Ferguson sharing insights into “Dune: Part Two.” These interviews offer behind-the-scenes glimpses into their upcoming films and personal experiences in the entertainment industry.

Comedian Lewis Black and actor Paul Walter Hauser join the show to discuss their roles in “Inside Out 2,” adding humor and anecdotes to the conversation. Additionally, actress Joey King shares details about “A Family Affair,” providing a sneak peek into her latest on-screen endeavors.

Music lovers can enjoy a special music download feature with Sofi Tukker performing “Spiral,” adding a musical flair to the episode. Comic relief is provided by Andrew Norelli,...

2017's Jigsaw has become a Netflix streaming hit. The movie was the platform's ninth most-watched movie in the United States in the week of July 1 through July 9. The Saw movies have enjoyed success in the past few years that seems to be rehabilitating the franchise after years of doldrums.

Jigsaw has become a streaming hit on Netflix. The 2017 horror movie was a legacy sequel and the eighth movie in the Saw franchise, coming seven years after the previous installment. It featured the return of Tobin Bell as the killer Jigsaw alongside a new cast of characters investigating a series of grisly murders. Despite grossing $104.2 million against a budget of $10 million, it failed to produce a direct sequel, as it was later followed by the 2021 spinoff Spiral: From the Book of Saw and the 2023 prequel Saw X.

Netflix has now calculated their Top 10 most-watched movies in the United States for the...

The cast for HBO Original series “Welcome to Derry” continues to grows larger this week, with Deadline reporting that Rudy Mancuso (The Flash) has been set for a key recurring role.

“Welcome to Derry” is said to include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown, with Bill Skarsgård reprising his role.

“The series will begin in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of It: Part One, the 2017 film based on the Stephen King horror novel. The story is also said to include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.”

Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs are on board the Pennywise prequel project from Warner Bros. Television, with Muschietti set to direct several episodes.

The series hails from a story by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Fuchs based on King’s novel It. Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti executive produce through their Double Dream production company alongside Fuchs,...

HBO has officially rounded out the cast of the upcoming Welcome to Derry series, with the addition of ten new actors to its roster. This serves as a prequel to Warner Bros. blockbuster horror film franchise, It.

Per Deadline, Peter Outerbridge (Batwoman), Dorian Grey (Star Trek: Discovery), Shane Marriott (Fargo), Alixandra Fuchs (Hatfields & McCoys), Kimberly Guerrero (The English), Thomas Mitchell (Spiral), Bj Harrison (Maid), Chad Rook (Billy the Kid), Joshua Odjick (Little Bird) and Morningstar Angeline (Westworld) have been tapped to play recurring roles in HBOs Welcome to Derry. Further details about their characters are still being kept under wraps. This marks the latest casting update that the show has received since moving from Max to HBO. It is currently slated to premiere sometime in 2025 with nine episodes.

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The cast for HBO Original series “Welcome to Derry” continues to grow this week, with Deadline announcing that ten new faces are joining Bill Skarsgård in the It prequel series.

Alixandra Fuchs (Hatfields & McCoys), Kimberly Guerrero (The English), Dorian Grey (Transplant, Star Trek: Discovery), Thomas Mitchell (Gangland Undercover, Spiral), Bj Harrison (Family Law, Maid), Peter Outerbridge (Batwoman, Saw VI), Shane Marriott (Fargo, Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent), Chad Rook (Joe Pickett, Billy the Kid), Joshua Odjick (Little Bird, Wildhood) and Morningstar Angeline (Echo, Westworld) have all signed on.

They join the previously announced Taylour Paige (Zola), Jovan Adepo (“Watchmen”), Chris Chalk (“Perry Mason”), James Remar (Oppenheimer), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil), with Skarsgård back as Pennywise the Clown.

“Welcome to Derry” will begin in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of It: Part One (2017). The series is also said to include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Normani delivers her highly-anticipated debut album and proves good things take time, Khalid shares a dreamy tune about falling in love, and This Is Lorelei serves up an indie-pop masterclass. Plus, new music from NxWorries, Earl Sweatshirt, Rae Khalil, Victoria Monét, Tove Lo, and Sg Lewis.

Normani, “Insomnia” (YouTube)

Khalid, “Adore U” (YouTube)

This is Lorelei, “An Extra Beat for You and Me” (YouTube)

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A wise woman once asked, “Who needs guys, when you have sausages, dildos, and Sofi Tukker?” That woman was Heidi Klum — and it’s the sort of slutty, dancey energy Klum and the electro-pop duo are bringing this summer with the video for single “Spiral,” which debuts with Rolling Stone Wednesday.

“It’s a breakup song, but rather than making the music video about the breakup, we wanted to make it about getting back to yourself, reconnecting with your friends,” Sophie Hawley-Weld tells Rolling Stone. “We got to live the...

The Saw franchise is a blockbuster horror series though the first seven entries have been something of a mixed bag in terms of reviews from critics and audiences. Jigsaw, the 2017 reboot, struggled to capture the glory of previous Saw movies. The traps were less ingenious, and the movie moved away from the satirical nature of the original series, making it less playful. Spiral: From the Book of Saw, while lacking Tobin Bell's Jigsaw, attempted to evolve the franchise beyond a character that died six movies ago. It starts slow but goes full Saw eventually. The final twist was predictable, making it a good but not great movie.

The Saw movies rank as one of the most successful and influential horror franchises of the 21st century, although the Saw movies ranked greatly varies. Saw premiered in 2003, and the massive hit propelled filmmaker James Wan into the Hollywood mainstream. Two years...

Leak suggests Splatoon 4 is in development for Switch 2. The Splatoon franchise's success is attributed to unique gameplay, aesthetics, and the beloved Splatfests. Reports indicate other big-name Nintendo franchises could also have entries in development for Switch 2.

Multiple big-name Nintendo franchises have been getting reports and leaks lately regarding which ones are headed to the Switch 2. The latest one points to the next entry in the Splatoon franchise being in production right now for the new system; if so, Nintendo may be banking on the growing franchise to move units for its upcoming console.

The leak was posted on X (formerly Twitter) by gaming insider Midori. They have been posting many pieces of Nintendo news recently, and on June 2, they noted that a Nintendo project called Spiral was in the works. Based on some digging, they believe that it will be Splatoon 4.

There is a a game project at Nintendo with the codename Spiral.

Ah, the "Saw" franchise. What started off as a tight little low-budget horror film blossomed into an entire saga that ushered in what some folks consider to be the "torture porn" era of horror movies. The "Saw" franchise is actually somehow still kicking — after the not-very-good "Spiral: From the Book of Saw," the series rebounded nicely with last year's surprisingly good "Saw X." A new sequel, "Saw XI," is on the way, due out next year. Why do they keep making these movies? The answer is simple: people keep watching them. There was a time when Lionsgate had a new "Saw" movie ready to go almost every Halloween season, and that approach brought out the crowds. It got to the point where they adopted the clumsy tagline "If it's Halloween, it must be Saw."

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Jigsaw wants to play a game with the subscribers of Hulu. It has been revealed that the majority of titles from the Saw franchise are all coming to the streaming platform.

Per Hulu, the first seven installments of the horror movie series will all drop on Hulu on June 1, 2024. This gives fans a chance to binge-watch the original series of films of the franchise, which was meant to conclude with 2010's Saw: The Final Chapter. The franchise was launched two decades ago with 2004's Saw, and it has since been relaunched with a new installment of the series currently in the works.

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Exclusive: Apple TV+ thriller series Liaison, which stars Vincent Cassel and Eva Green, has sold to TF1 in France.

The Anglo-French show remains on Apple globally but has been sold non-exclusively in its second window by distributor Newen Connect.

Produced by Newen Studios-backed Ringside Studio in the UK and Leonis Productions in France, the high-stakes thriller follows two agents (played by Cassel and Green) and former lovers, who must work together in a post-Brexit era to counter violent international cyberattacks that threaten the United Kingdom, while facing the explosive buried secrets of their past relationship. With an international backdrop that includes London, Paris, Brussels and Syria, Liaison explores how the mistakes of the past have the potential to destroy the future. Peter Mullan (Ozark; Mum; The Lords of the Rings – The Rings of Power), Gerard Lanvin (Call My Agent!), Daniel Francis (Small Axe), Laetitia Eido (Fauda), BAFTA Rising Star...

Darren Lynn Bousman has joined forces with one of Kansas City’s most bone-chilling haunted houses, Exiled: Trail of Terror, to bring a new level of fear to the city this Halloween, Bd has learned. Together, they are crafting a one-of-a-kind fusion of terror and immersive storytelling, giving people a living, breathing emotional experience.

Read on for everything you need to know and watch the announce trailer below…

Bousman beckons you to step into a realm of fear this fall at Exiled: Crooked Rose Woods, an outdoor haunted house nestled in the sinister shadows of Bonner Springs, Kansas, just 25 minutes west of downtown Kansas City. “Those looking for traditional scares, be warned, this insidious event breathes, reacts, and transforms with your every interaction,” taunts Bousman.

“I was raised in Kansas City, and every Halloween, my father and I would venture into the West Bottoms. It was there that my fascination...